(Ebook free) Left Brains for the Right Stuff: Computers, Space, and History
• Hugh Blair-Smith •
| #1621522 in Books | Ingramcontent | 2015-11 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 | 9.02 x.95 x5.98l,1.38 | File Name: 0996434534 | 474 pages | Left Brains for the Right Stuff Computers Space and History
||0 of 0 people found the following review helpful.| I was looking forward to this read and I was not disappointed. While a good deal of the book is ...|By Theodore Hollander Jr.|Having worked on support equipment for the Apollo program, I was looking forward to this read and I was not disappointed. While a good deal of the book is geared to a highly technical audience, as evidenced for example by an extensive glossary of acrony|About the Author|As the Space Race began, Hugh Blair-Smith joined the engineering staff of MIT's Instrumentation Laboratory, founded by Charles Stark -Doc- Draper to develop self-contained inertial navigation for missiles, aircraft, and spacecraft. That timing
What made the Space Race possible? What made it necessary? How close a race was it? And what did it achieve? The answers are connected in surprising ways. Left Brains for the Right Stuff briefly summarizes the history of three technologies-rockets, navigation, and computers-and recounts how they were woven into the rise and rivalry of superpowers in the twentieth century. President John F. Kennedy inherited a small Space Race and transformed it into a Moon Race by cr...
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